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CONSTITUTION 



AND 



ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 



RELATING TO THE 



HENRY WATSON 



Children's ^itl Boririg 



OF THE 



CITY OF BALTIMORE 



BALTIMORE: 

WILLIAM K. BOYLE, PRINTER. 

1879. 






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CONSTITUTION 



Cfiildrmf s ^itl ^o#g of ^aliiin^e. 



1 . This Society shall be known by the name of the "Children's 
Aid Society of Baltimore." 

2. Its object shall be to improve the condition of poor and 
destitute children of this city, and especially by procuring them 
homes in the country. 

3. The affairs and business of the Society shall be managed 
by thirty (30) Managers, who shall be chosen hereafter, at such 
time and place as shall be designated for that purpose in the 
By-Laws. The Managers in office at the time of the formation 
of this Constitution shall be J. Dean Smith, Edward Otis 
Hinkley, Thomas W. Tobin, James Carey Thomas, Gerard H. 
Reese, George JSTeedhain, Charles Mercer, Ezra Whitman, 
Wm. H. Richardson, Goldsborough S. Griffith, Thomas D. 
Baird, Henry S. Hunt, William A. Wisong, Charles Hoffman, 
Henry James, R. Stockett Mathews, Washington Carson, 
John Weeks, Andrew C. Trippe, Telfair Marriott, John C. 
Bridges, Charles Worthington, John Curlett, Hiram Woods, 
Junior, A. Fuller Crane, Edward G. Waters, William B. Can- 
field, Isaac P. Cook, William H. Perkins and Jesse Tyson, 
who shall serve for one year, and until others are appointed, 
and shall, from their own number, appoint a President, Vice- 
President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary and 
Treasurer, who shall serve until others shall be chosen in their 
stead. 

4. Every person who shall have contributed within the year 
to the funds of the Association, and not less than thirty days 
preceding the annual election, and whose whole contribution 



shall have been entered upon the books, shall be considered a 
member thereof, and shall be entitled to vote at such election 
of Managers. 

5. The Board of Managers shall have power to appoint such 
other officers and agents as they may think proper, to prescribe 
their duties and fix their condensation, and, in general, to 
carry out the objects of the Society. 

They shall also have power to fill vacancies in their number 
occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, until the next 
annual election occurring after such vacancy. 

6. The Constitution may be altered or amended at any 
annual meeting of the Society. 

The undersigned, all of whom are free white citizens of the 
United States and of the State of Maryland, are associated for 
the charitable purpose mentioned in the foregoing Constitution 
of the Children's Aid Society, and desire to be incorporated 
under the provisions of the Code of the Laws of the State of 
Maryland, and in testimony thereof have hereunto set our 
hands and seals, on this fourteenth day of February, in the 
year eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 



WM. B. CANFIELD, 


[Seal.] 


ISAAC P. COOK, 


[Seal.] 


JOHN CURLETT, 


[Seal.] 


J. DEAN SMITH, 


[Seal] 


EDWARD OTIS HINKLEY, 


[Seal.] 


CHARLES HOFFMAN, 


[Seal ] 


TELFAIR MARRIOTT, 


[Seal.] 


G. S. GRIFFITH, 


[Seal] 



Signed and sealed in presence of 
R. N. MARTIN, 
HENRY STOCKBRIDGE. 



State of Maryland, 

In the Superior Court of Baltimore City. 

I, Robert N. Martin, Judge of the Superior Court of Balti- 
more City, do hereby certify, that on this fourteenth day of 
February, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, per- 
sonally appeared before me the following named persons, Wil- 



liam B. Canfield, Isaac P. Cook, John Ourlett, Joseph Dean 
Smith, Edward Otis Hinkley, Charles Hoffman, Telfair Mar- 
riott and Goldsborough S. Griffith, who are known to me, by 
oral testimony under oath or affirmation received by me, to be 
the identical persons who have executed the foregoing instru- 
ment of writing, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument 
of writing to be their Act for Incorporation ; and I direct the 
same to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of this Court. 

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, on the 
day and year aforesaid. 

E. K MAETLNT. 



Received for Eecord, 14th February, 1862. — Same day re- 
corded in Liber G-. E. S. No. 6, folio 161, &c, one of the 
Charter Records of Baltimore City, and examined, per. 



GEO. E. SAXGSTON, Clerk. 



ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. 

CHAPTER 296. 

Passed March 1st, 1864. 

An Act to add a new section to Article four of the Code of 
Public Local Laws for Baltimore city, title " Vagrants," 
for the purpose of extending to the Children' 1 s Aid Society the 
provisions therein relating to the Home of the Friendless. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
land, That the following section be added to Article four of 
the Public Local Laws for Baltimore city, title " Vagrants: 1 ' 

The judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore city, the 
judge of the Criminal Court, any Justice of the Peace, the 
trustees of the poor, and the ward managers of the poor, and 
any police officer or constable of said city, are hereby author- 



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ized and empowered to deal with, and commit to the president 
and board of managers of the Children's Aid Society of Balti- 
more, any minor, whether male or female, in the same manner 
and under the same circumstances as they are authorized to 
deal with and commit female minors, to the care and charge 
of the Home of the Friendless, by the Public Local Laws of 
the city of Baltimore, Article four, titles "Vagrants," section 
nine hundred and seven to nine hundred and twenty-seven, 
both inclusive, and the president and board of managers of 
said Children's Aid Society of Baltimore, are hereby vested in 
regard to all minors, male or female, with all the rights, 
powers, and authority, which the Home of the Friendless, or 
the president and managers thereof, by said Public Local 
Laws of Baltimore city are vested with in regard to female 
minors, and are to observe the same forms and regulations, in 
regard to the binding out, adopting, or otherwise disposing of 
minors, male and female, committed to them by virtue of this 
law, except that the president and board of managers of the 
Children's Aid Society may bind out or dispose of male minors, 
committed to them, until twenty-one years of age. 

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the comptroller be and he is 
hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer to pay 
to the order of the president and treasurer of the Children's 
Aid Society of Baltimore three thousand dollars to enable said 
society to purchase a house and lot to be used as a home for 
destitute children committed to its charge. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect and 
be in force from and after its passage. 



CHAPTEB 14. 

Passed February 12th, 1872. 

An Act to change the name of the Children's Aid Society of 
Baltimore to the name "The Henry Watson Children's 
Aid Society of Baltimore," and otherwise to amend 
the Constitution of said Society. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- 
land, That the name of "The Children's Aid Society of 



Baltimore" be, and the same is hereby changed to the name 
" The Henry Watson Children's Aid Society of Bal- 
timore," which is hereby fixed and established in perpetuity, 
as the corporate name of said Society. 

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That its object shall be to im- 
prove the condition of poor and destitute children of the City 
of Baltimore, and especially by procuring them homes in the 
country. 

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the affairs and business of 
the Society shall be managed by twenty managers, who shall 
be chosen annually, at such time and place as shall be desig- 
nated for that purpose in the By-Laws, and who shall serve 
for one year, and until others are appointed, and shall from 
their own number appoint a President, three Vice-Presidents, 
a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a 
Treasurer, who shall serve until others shall be chosen in their 
stead. 

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That every person who shall 
have contributed within the year to the funds of the Associa- 
tion not less than five dollars, and not less than thirty days 
preceding the annual election, and whose contribution shall 
have been entered upon the foooks, shall be considered a mem- 
ber thereof, and shall be entitled to vote at such an election 
of managers. 

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Board of Managers 
shall have power to appoint such other officers and agents as 
they may think proper, to prescribe their duties and fix their 
compensation ; and in general to carry out the objects of the 
Society. They shall also have power to fill all vacancies in 
their number occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise, 
until the next annual election occurring after such vacancy. 

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That all legacies given by per- 
sons dying after the date of this Act, and intended for this 
Society, but given by its former name of " The Children's Aid 
Society of Baltimore," instead of its name as fixed by this Act, 
shall remain and inure to the benefit of "The Henry Watson 
Children's Aid Society of Baltimore." 

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect 
from the date of its passage. 



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CHAPTER 81. 

Passed March 22nd, 1876. 
An Act to amend the Constitution of the Henry Watson Chil- 
dren's Aid Society of Baltimore as the same was enacted by 
act of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter fourteen. 

Section 1. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of Mary- 
land, That the third section of the act of eighteen hundred 
and seventy-two, chapter fourteen, entitled "An Act to change 
the name of the Children's Aid Society of Baltimore," be and 
the same is hereby changed to the name, "The Henry Watson 
Children's Aid Society of Baltimore," and otherwise to amend 
the constitution of said society, be, and the said third section, 
is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor 
and re-enacted as the third section of said act. 

3. That the affairs and business of the society shall be man- 
aged by not less than ten nor more than twenty managers, 
who shall be chosen annually at such time and place as shall 
be designated for that purpose by the by-laws, and' who shall 
serve for one year and until others are appointed, and shall 
from their own number appoint a president, two vice-presi- 
dents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary:, and a 
treasurer, who shall serve until others shall be chosen in their 
stead. 

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That section four of said act be 
and the same is hereby repealed and the following is substi- 
tuted therefor and re-enacted as the fourth section of said act. 

4. That every person who shall have contributed within the 
year to the funds of the association not less than one dollar 
and whose contribution shall have been entered on the books, 
shall be considered a member thereof and be entitled to vote 
at such an election of managers. 

Sec ,3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect 
from the date of its passage. 



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